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wnylib

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1. I've always taken it as a given that
Fri Jan 10, 2020, 12:42 AM
Jan 2020

pre Columbisn Americans produced enough crops to support a city like Cahokia or the city would not have existed. But since the only domesticated animals the Native people of N. America had were dogs and turkeys, I wonder how they obtained animal products that they needed, e.g. skins,fur,hides, bones, sinew, and meat. Perhaps there were hunters in the outlying areas who carried on a regular trade with the city residents.

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